The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-01
BILL. NYE AT THE PLAY.
lie browns Election Remorse by Wis
iting Bowery Variety show.

past week so little attention has been
pad by the bright and able amusement
and theatrical writers OF the New York
press to the bill nightly presented by
the London Theatre OF this place.
Certainly for those who enjoy an even
ing of uninterrupted enjoyment at n
trifling expense there is nothing at
present TO compete with the London.
Three hours of solid fun that anybody
can understand, together with thirty
or forty songs and play, are very
rarely offered in this city for 20 cents,
and it certainly seems to me to usher
in an era of prosperity and good feel
ing among the plain people who enjoy
spectacular, musical and dramatic
season at cut rates
had feared that the London Theatre
would partake so much OF English
customs and English methods that per-
haps it might at first be startling TO
one who is so thoroughly an American
every day in the week as am, but |
was told that most every one connected
with the theatre was born i'm this coun.
try.
found myself readily adapting my
self to the English customs Of the Lon
don Theatre. however, as the enter
tainment went on, and though the
habit of marking time on the part of
the audience with the feet seems odd
at first, one soon gets accustomed TO it
so that one keeps ones feet going TO
ones infinite delight throughout.
did not take lady with me to the
London, thinking that would go first
aud see how liked it myself. found
that the rest of the audience consisted
of gentlemen who evidently thought
the same way
1t was good opportunity to study
the English audience, though Of course
there were many American visitors
there like myself, several of whom took
off their hats towards the close of the
entertainment.
The scene opens with a can-opener
and an overture, during which rapid
liddling is done by three men, who gain
perceptibly on each other in Il half-mile
dash, followed by the clarionet later
and the hoarse accents of the Xylophone.
1t is medley, and admirable time
was kept by the audience, led by two
sailors who set near me, dressed up in
their other clothes and Il chew of tobac-
co apiece, which made that side of
their faces sag considerably, and give
them sinister expression of counte-
nance and tinge of ill-concealed navy
tobacco When the vast audience was
perfectly still, as it frequently was
after humorous burst from the stage,
fancied that | could hear the salivary
glands of these two old tars toilng on
hopelessly through the slowly moving
hours
The curtain then rises and discloses
brilliant picture of Partisan life. !
Judge that the climate of Paris is such
that people can dress themselves on a
great deal less money than they can
here. But / believe that what they
save there in clothes must go for doc
tors bills and mutton talow with which
to rub their chests at night for, as
hardy as | am, | would not dare to 60
to balls and parties with nothing but a
light pair of velvet shoulder straps over
my lungs. The Partisan people seem
TO pride themselve on their lung power,
but must say that think it fool-hardy
to 90 about on these crisp autumn
evenings with little to protect the chest
but a live-cent bunch of panses
After the Paris life episode. which is
really more spectacular than anything
else, the Acme Quartet Club, consist
ing of four handsome young men in
full dress and police gloves. MARBLES
few strains, during which il attains the
higher notes with some difficulty and
swollen iugular veins. The Acme
Quartet pleased me very much, espe-
c ally when ii refused to sing any more.
/ think the Acme is certainly superior
to the Climax Quartet the Trophy, the
Little Mammoth or the Early Dwarf
Quartet.
A tableau was now produced with
Eden Musee effects and, with calcium
light thrown on it, pleased me much
peter than the Raway murder
After this Messrs. Manchester and
Jennings introduced some more songs,
dan and cnmmedy flashes. inst rs